Preview: Sparkassen Giro
by Monty. on Aug 7, 2010 8:42 AM EDT
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This weekend the city of Bochum in the Ruhr valley in the far west of Germany is enjoying the Sparkassen Giro;, a two day holiday/festival/party with added bike races which has been running since 1998, although the main races have only become UCI registered in more recent years. Here is the brief summary of events:
Saturday:
16:15 Amateur race
18:30 non-UCI Women’s race
20:15 Men’s Derny race
22:00 Fireworks
Sunday
8:00 – 10:45 Open race
11:30 Children’s race heats
11:45 – 13:50 Women’s race
14:00 – 17:50 Men’s race
14:10 Children’s race final
All races are run on a 14.6km circuit. On Saturday evening the women race three laps, then on Sunday the men do twelve and the women six, during which races awards are also given for intermediate sprints and climbs.
That looks hilly, but even so the winners last year were Lizzie Armitstead on Saturday, then Mark Cavendish and Rochelle Gilmore on Sunday. There are start lists up for men and women, and both Rochelle and Cav are back to defend their titles. I remember seeing a report on both races from Enrico Muax, but the clever titles he gives to his pieces are a real pain when you are trying to find something in his archives from a year back and you don’t understand the language that well. No doubt the local TV station are covering it too, but I just don’t know what station that is. Any help gratefully received in the comments below.
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City of Bochum doesn't seem to have a local tv station
The private regional station NRW.tv doesn’t seem to have sports scheduled, ever. And the public broadcaster for the west of the country seems only interested in equestrian sports: http://www.wdr.de/tv/sport/index.jsp
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Shame
and HTC even have both Cav and Greipel which should make for a bit of interest.
DOn't know how they'll work that out.
Funny how they have two Protour teams and then all actual Conti teams.
Oh really?
Heh, that could be a LOT of fun!
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 7, 2010 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Cycling Fever are running a game for the women's race
It’s a simple game – pick 12 riders, first 10 across the line score
Teams need to be ready by 11.30am CEST – 15.5 hours to go!
And in other really quite fun news from Germany
did someone say Skyter? Their boss is right now sitting in jail facing almost 200 charges of fraud. Meanwhile Herbert Oppelt’s latest estimate of the amount of cash needed to keep Noris going until the end of the season has dropped pretty dramatically. Yours for just 10,000 Euro. If only someone had an unwanted bike to stick on Ebay. Or a fridge they don’t need any more. Or a centrifuge. Or a recipe for rice cakes.
Blimey!!!!!
Re Skyter, that’s the best news I’ve heard all year! Amazing!!!
E10,000? My god, that’s ridiculous! Probably less tha Sky spent on mood lighting for their buses!
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 4:33 AM EDT up reply actions
If you want photos from the Derny race
there’s a whole gallery here, complete with very snazzy looking, shiny, new dernies.
The startlists are old & not right
I think Jose Tomic is still in Spain & not racing. Tiffany Cromwell is making her debut with Lotto. Chloe Hosking & Emilia Fahlin are listed on the startlist for Route de France & I believe are in France. I think Tiffany Cromwell is listed in the Aust team for the route de France but she is definitely in Germany
This weekend all the startlists are insane
I think everyone is listed as riding everywhere. I think Lotto’s the only one we’re clear about! Yay Lotto! The best team for sharing info!
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 4:35 AM EDT up reply actions
Lotto, because of the individual riders' twitter?
Because they seemed to have missed payment on the website domain name: http://www.lottoladiescycling.be/
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Exactly!
Funny the most online-savvy riders ride for a team with no website!
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 6:51 AM EDT up reply actions
Wow
12:39 Das Wasser steht Zentimeterhoch auf den Straßen – Auf einigen Teilen der Strecke steht das Wasser 15 Zentimeter hoch auf der Straße, so dass die Frauen vorsichtig und gut steuern müssen.
10 cm of water on the streets, at some points 15 cm. (4 – 6 inches)
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A result from last night
in the live commentary:
Silvia Valsecchi (TOG Top Girls Fassa Bartolo), die gestern das Rundstreckenrennen in Bochum gewonnen hat,
Silvia Valsecchi won the crit yesterday.
That's the nearest we've got to a startlist for today
I’m glad that at least some of the riders I picked over at Cycling Fever are in Germany
My Cycling Fever team
was packed with sprinters, I hope I did right! Great to see Katie Colclough’s name in the ticker – and I’m amazed British Cycling sent a team without Cooke. Good, though – I hope all the Team GB girls get contracts with proper teams…
Speaking of proper teams, where do we think Lotto’s large injection of cash has come from, to afford all the fabulous mid-season transfers?
"Large injection of cash"
Ha ha! (weep). I don’t think there are many women riders with salaries, let alone transfer sums.
Still, it has to cost some money to get them here from Oz and kitted out.
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Good point - oops!
“Relatively large”, I should’ve said! esp as they can’t afford the website!
They also just signed another South African rider too
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 7:43 AM EDT up reply actions
I think its more a case
of selling off a few places in the team to people who don’t want to finance a whole team for a whole season. Rochelle Gilmore rides for a Honda team back in Oz and now Honda are on the Lotto jersey. South African team Cyclelab wrote something about a strategic link between them and Lotto, whereby they send three riders to Belgium and the Belgians can “go and train in the sun during the winter.” But then Vicki Whitelaw said something about how she got on well with Ash Moolman because they were both early morning people, Moolman because that was the safest time of the day to go out riding.
In the 4th lap, there's a great breakawy group
Vicki Whitelaw ( LLT Lotto Ladies Team) , Tiffany Cromwell ( LLT Lotto Ladies Team) , Evelyn Stevens ( TCW HTC Columbia Women ), Ellen Van Dijk ( TCW HTC Columbia Women ), Katie Colclough (GBR Nationalt . Great Britain) , Katazino Sosna (VAI Vaiano Solari Tech), Maaike Polspoel ( VLL Topsport Vlaanderen) , Valentina Carretta ( TOG Top Girls Fassa Bartolo ), Silvia Valsecchi ( TOG Top Girls Fassa Bartolo)
Very nice group indeed – and yay Tiff Cromwell in her first Lotto race!
Man, this race is about 2.5 hrs from home for me but...
I’m sitting in Qatar, so it is a no go this year. Maybe next year.
If I just had one more gear, I...
Unofficial Results
1. Ellen Van Dijk (TCW HTC Columbia Women)
2. Tiffany Cromwell (LLT Lotto-Ladies Team)
3. Maaike Polspoel (VLL Topsport Vlaanderen)
4. Vicki Whitelaw (LLT Lotto-Ladies Team)
5. Valentina Carretta (TOG Top Girls Fassa Bartolo)
6. Evelyn Stevens (TCW HTC Columbia Women)
7. Katazino Sosna (VAI Vaiano Solaristech)
8. Chloe Hosking (TCW HTC Columbia Women)
9. Jolien D’Hoore (VLL Topsport Vlaanderen)
10. Kelly Druyts (VLL Topsport Vlaanderen)
11. Emilie Moberg (HPU Hitec Products UCK)
12. Nathalie Lamborelle (HPU Hitec Products UCK)
13. Martina Zwick (KMY Koga Miyata)
14. Rossella Callovi (ASD Vecchia)
15. Anisha Vekemans (VLL Topsport Vlaanderen)
I think I picked 4,5 and 8
Superb debut for Cromwell!
And great race for TopSport too – and Ellen VD, obvs!
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 8:16 AM EDT up reply actions
Ugh!
Who in their right mind would do this for a job?
by Creeping Tortoise on Aug 8, 2010 8:27 AM EDT up reply actions
Ha Ha, wasn't it Cav who said
that on days like that, the one thought that keeps him going is that at least it’s better than going back to being a bank clerk.
I was looking on the official site
which has some adorable shots of very, very young riders in the rain
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 8:49 AM EDT up reply actions
The podium
click. I think that Kelly and Tiff are both very tiny
Tiny Tiff in real life, yes
met her briefly on Belgium outside a port-a-loo.
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I think I picked
1, 5, 10, 14 and maybe 2, but I swopped so many times I can’t remember….
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 8:43 AM EDT up reply actions
Ticker says there was a crash in final sprint
and at least 1 rider has been taken to hospital…. ouch, hope they’re ok
Nooooooo
Katie Colclough was apparently in the crash – hope she’s ok x1,000
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 8:36 AM EDT up reply actions
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